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Ecuador to rally banana exporters in bid to defend prices

Workers at a banana plantation in Ecuador which is fighting to hold prices steadyAFP/File

Ecuador, the world's largest banana exporter, is urging Latin American producers to fight German supermarket chain Aldi's bid to pay one euro less per case in 2019.

"We must organize a front of all producing countries in the region to stop Aldi from applying this unfair measure," Ecuadoran banana exporters association chief, Eduardo Ledesma, told AFP.

He argued that Aldi, which owns supermarkets in Europe and the United States, intends to implement this "unilateral and unfair" decision, which he said would also be a "parallel customs tax" within the European Union.